Quotes from Tomie dePaola

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

The rose is red, the violet's blue, The honey's sweet, and so are you. Thou art my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine. The lot was cast and then I drew, And fortune said it should be you.

Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Today is today. And it is a gift

For that is the ingrediente segreto, love ... It is the same with all your magic. Always love!